Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Devotional Book.

Authors

• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Ḥamīdī, Ibrāhīm Bahjat, scribe
  حميدي، ابراهيم بهجت.
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner

Call number

Lewis O 25
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2435295
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076362014
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2435295

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic with some headers in Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

A.H. 1198 (1783)

Place

Turkey? ;

Summary

Collection of selections from the Qurʼān and prayers, with many leaves of illustrations and illuminations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• A series of notes in the back list the names of five sons born to the owner of the manuscript over the years A.H. 1266 to 1284 (1850-1867), though the owner himself is not named (f. 156r-156v).
   

Extent

156 leaves : 170 x 107 (110 x 55) mm bound to 170 x 115 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added, upper left recto; unnumbered leaf following f. 124 and 129; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Covers are blind-stamped and gilded with a central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis with gold tooled decorations and frame. The flap has a coordinating blind stamped and gilded medallion. Yellow paper doublure.

Layout

11 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; textblock border-ruled in gold, black, red; headers in red; series of 59 illuminations of significant names, illustrations of significant places and objects, and prayers in different shapes (f. 63r-84r; 85r, 91v-93r). A sequence of stamps in decorated borders also appear (f. 86v-91r).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Prayer--Islam--Early works to 1800
• Islam
• Prayer--Islam

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Prayers (literary works)
• Early works
• Prayers and devotions

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Devotional Book].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece.
• fol. 2r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 5r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 63v — Illuminated panel
• fol. 64r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 64v — Decorative text border and circular text block
• fol. 65r — Decorative text border and circular text block
• fol. 65v — Decorative text border and circular text block
• fol. 66r — Decorative text border and circular text block
• fol. 66v — Decorative text border and circular text block
• fol. 67r — Decorative text border and circular text block
• fol. 67v — Calligraphic panel
• fol. 68r — Calligraphic panel
• fol. 68v — Calligraphic panel
• fol. 69r — Calligraphic panel
• fol. 69v — Calligraphic panel
• fol. 70r — Calligraphic panel
• fol. 70v — Calligraphic panel
• fol. 71r — Calligraphic panel
• fol. 71v — Calligraphic panel
• fol. 72r — Calligraphic panel
• fol. 72v — Calligraphic panel
• fol. 73r — Calligraphic panel
• fol. 73v — Calligraphic panel
• fol. 74r — Calligraphic panel
• fol. 74v — Watercolor of Mecca
• fol. 75r — Watercolor of Medina
• fol. 75v — Labeled illustrated panel
• fol. 76r — Labeled illustrated panel
• fol. 76v — Labeled illustrated panel
• fol. 77r — Labeled illustrated panel
• fol. 77v — Labeled illustrated panel
• fol. 78r — Labeled illustrated panel
• fol. 78v — Labeled illustrated panel
• fol. 79r — Labeled illustrated panel
• fol. 79v — Labeled illustrated panel
• fol. 80r — Labeled illustrated panel
• fol. 80v — Labeled illustrated panel
• fol. 81r — Labeled illustrated panel
• fol. 81v — Seal (muhr)
• fol. 82r — Seal (muhr)
• fol. 82v — Seal (muhr)
• fol. 83r — Illuminated table
• fol. 83v — Illuminated table
• fol. 84r — Illuminated table
• fol. 85r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 85v — Decorative text border and circular text block
• fol. 86r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 86v — Circular stamp (junnah) with decorative border
• fol. 87r — Circular stamp (junnah) with decorative border
• fol. 87v — Circular stamp (junnah) with decorative border
• fol. 88r — Circular stamp (junnah) with decorative border
• fol. 88v — Circular stamp (junnah) with decorative border
• fol. 89r — Circular stamp (junnah) with decorative border
• fol. 89v — Circular stamp (junnah) with decorative border
• fol. 90r — Circular stamp (junnah) with decorative border
• fol. 90v — Circular stamp (junnah) with decorative border
• fol. 91r — Circular stamp (junnah) with decorative border
• fol. 91v — Illuminated panel
• fol. 92r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 92v — Illuminated panel
• fol. 93r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 155r — Colophon in circular shape with foliate fill.